It's been lovely being at home for the last few months, but my travel season is picking up again, starting this week. I have such a weird relationship with travel: I love going to new places (or even old, favourite places), and I reallylove visiting places that are on the other side of the Earth from where I live ...

• I have several more trips that are coming up, but there's one I'm particularly excited about I want to share with you. I've been feeling really stagnant in my photography lately -- like I've not been evolving in any way. The problem is that I've been able to find a photography course I felt offered anything that would stretch me in ways I wanted to be stretched.

Never, that is, until my friend Maile turned me on to the art photography of Brooke Shaden. Her stuff is seriously surreal, and completely unlike anything I've ever shot in my life -- and something inside me totally stirred. I think her work is beautiful, and while I have no concrete goals of starting any fine art photography, I have to think that the workshops she offers are going stretch me in all kinds of new, awesome ways.

Maile and I have bitten the bullet and signed up for the Dallas one in March. This will be the first formal photography course I've ever taken, and I'm wildly excited.

• Over at StyleUnited, I've shared what my happy spot looks like. What you don't have a happy spot? Dude. You gotta get you one.